[tomcooks]

I don't see how corporations meddling with the government can produce any good for the developing world, apart from generating profit for themselves masked as charity. Digital natives will be offered a walled garden, terrorcorp version of "the internet" as we know it (e.g. Facebook meddling with Albanian government).

Decentralized alternatives, like Freifunk, are the best option in my opinion.

[icc97]

Bare in mind that Space X doesn't really care about trying to control the internet - their focus is making money from putting stuff in space so they can build the BFR.

So a better comparison as others have said is comcast and mobile broadband providers. The more competition the better as far as I'm concerned.